My health teacher called me out for like no reason and I'm scared

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I'm soo mad/scared</p>

<p>Today in Health class we were doing this assignment about how people judge others based on their first impression and I was like totally breezing through the assignment, but then there was this question that was like "What are 10 labels that you commonly hear about in our school (ex. stupid jock, dumb cheerleader) and do you think our school has less first impression-judging than other schools, and why?"</p>

<p>Welll I put down the normal labels for the list of 10, but then I got to 8 and couldn't think of any more and I TOTALLY was thinking of putting "slut" (because it IS a super common label) but the teacher is SERIOUSLY pc as hell and I was scared. Welll I didn't wanna lose points so I put "slut" as the second to last label. </p>

<p>Like 2 minutes later the teacher was looking over my shoulder watching me do my work and all of a sudden she just snatched my paper off my desk and ripped it in half and said "if you can't take this class seriously, then just get out." I was like "what???" and she told me that I knew what I wrote on my paper and I knew that I wasn't taking it seriously. I really didn't know if she was talking about the fact that I wrote "slut" so I told her I didn't know and she took me into the hall and was like "slut?!? You really think that's an appropriate term for class and you REALLY think there are people in our school who fit that label?" I was completely honest and said "yes" and she said "I'm finished with you" and walked back into the classroom and left me in the hall, and I went to the office and chilled for the rest of the period.</p>

<p>She called the office and my counselor was like totally staring me down through her office window when I was sitting in the chairs waiting and I was really scared.. and then when the bell rang I just kinda scurried out and I'm REALLY scared to go to school tomorrow and even MORE scared to go back to that class.</p>

<p>What should I do??</p>

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<p>If the question literally discussed labels “commonly heard in our school”, you have every right to be honest.</p>

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<p>Just go back to school and pretend like nothing happened</p>

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<p>What are you scared for? There isn’t anything wrong with being honest… And it’s not like you really got in trouble. If you are that scared, maybe you should call your parents and have them set up a conference with the teacher. The teacher was somewhat out of hand in my opinion</p>

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<p>For some reason I don’t see any problem with your answer :confused:. If that’s a label that people use at your school - it IS rather common - I don’t understand why your teacher reacted the way she did. I think she misunderstood and thought you were purposely being malicious or somethng. Seriously, I would drop an email to the school counselor to explain the situation from your perspective. I would even email the teacher to ask her about this directly, and maybe apologize for possibly unintentionally offending her somehow. It should be a minor misunderstanding that can be easily resolved.</p>

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<p>Not gonna lie, I would have wrote down mostly curse words like *<strong><em>ing *</em></strong>**, because even I frequent the term.</p>

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<p>You were honest. You will be okay. My health teacher has told me “You are the kind kid who would have stuck a fork in an outlet”, “While you are walking the stage at graduation I will be thinking how this is the last place you will graduate from since you will drop out of college”, and also “You are never going to achieve anything in life. Just give up.”. I have a lot worse incidents with teachers and managers at work (I once had my 60 old manager call me another worthless employee and tried to get me to punch him which I was about to knock him out before another employee saw the look in my eyes and tackled me to prevent me from turning it physical) , maintain confidence but avoid contact that could lead to conflict. Don’t let them feel like what they did was right by apologizing a lot, but avoid any fighting.</p>

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<p>In all seriousness, ask her if you and her can talk for awhile after school, or (better yet, before school starts). Expand on why you chose “slut”, explain how it truthfully reflects how your peers label each other (who knows, your teacher may have gone to a special kind of high school), and you were not intending any disrespect, sass, of any kind. If your teacher sees that you’re being 100% sincere and attempting to resolve the issue in a mature manner, then she’ll let the matter go.</p>

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Quoted for truth.</p>